‘MDLSX,’ From the Troupe Motus, Comes to La MaMa Downstairs

“MDLSX”: At first glance, the title of the latest offering from Motus — a boundary-defying international theater troupe that honestly and ardently aspires to the revolutionary — brings to mind an optometrist’s eye chart. But look again, a directive that is implicit in all Motus productions; imagine these letters connected by vowels. Now, perhaps, you start to see “Middlesex,” with its suggestions of indeterminate gender (and the title of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on just that subject by Jeffrey Eugenides), or “muddle” or “medium, large, small.”

All of the above are likely to apply in this production, which opens Sunday night, Jan. 10, at La MaMa. The longtime Motus member Silvia Calderoni, last seen here in the company’s dynamic riff on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” performs an autobiographical exercise in bending — and blending — those traditional boxes marked masculine, feminine and other, under the appropriately fluid direction of Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolo. (Through Jan. 17, LaMaMa Downstairs; lamama.org.)